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Our thanks to David Phipps BMFA CEO, the BMFA Nationals organisers, and the Commandant of Cranwell Collage.

F3A Organiser and Contest Director: Matt Hoyland.

Public Relations: Ashley Hoyland

Scoring: Computer tablet system maintained by Matt Hoyland.

Judges: Pilot Judges and scribes aided by Mark and Linda.

All competitors should be congratulated for helping to set up and clear away on Monday afternoon leaving our area as we found it.

Saturday was a good day with a breeze blowing in most of the day until by evening it dropped to leave Barkston in evening sunshine and almost still air.
I would like to thank John Morton for helping with the PR side on Saturday. The free flighters had a good evening.

Hard to believe that by morning it was cold and a fresh wind was blowing 'out' but by lunch time we would have settled for that as the rain and squalls came through all afternoon. (I was sorry for the traders, as many had their stock blown off tables and rained on). We had meetings at 2pm and 4pm but it was decided to abandoned flying for the day.

Monday morning was again cold but the wind was straight down the runway and strengthened through the morning until flying ended just after lunch time. We had completed five rounds for everyone and we only lost one full round over the weekend. By the time we finished the wind was around 17mph with gusts of 27mph. As we cleared away the wind started to drop and by evening it was calm again.

We agreed to modify our flying programme for the Nationals Championship/Team Selection from the original planned 3 from 4 'P' schedules and 1 from 2 F' schedules to 2 from 3 'Ps' and 1 from 2 'Fs', all other competitors flew 5 rounds.

Unfortunately a few competitors could not attend and some pulled out through the weekend which made reorganising the flight schedule a bit time consuming and tedious for our CD, but pilots were kept informed and given the alternative at every step before voting.

Podium. Clubman: First Place Joe Wotton, 2nd Matthew Bacon. (Graeme Jones (DNF)

Intermediate: First Place Philip Lewis, 2nd Michael Broad.

Masters: First Place Mark Allan (Keith Riel DNF).

FAI 'P' Schedule only: First Place Steve Underwood, 2nd Place Chris Halgreen, 3rd Brian Hoare.

Team Selection and National Champion flying FAI 'P' and 'F' schedules:

First Place Matt Hoyland, 2nd Keith Jackson 3rd Adrian Mansell.

Photographs: Ashley Hoyland and Mike Wood.